Harpeth High School
Kingston Springs · TN · Cheatham County · Public
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Arch Academy → James Lawson High School → Nashville Christian School → The Ensworth School-Hs Campus → Fairview High School → Creek Wood High School → Christ Presbyterian Academy → Riverside Academy →📋 At a glance
- 🔢 1 calculus classes · 1 physics · 6 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 25% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 79th percentile by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 92% (60th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
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- ▸ LocallyTN sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Arch Academy, James Lawson High School, Nashville Christian School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Limited — narrow advanced curriculum
Bottom 25% of US high schools
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2179th percentile by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
60th percentile nationally
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the strongest early indicator of dropout, transfer-out, and family disengagement. A school's absenteeism trend forecasts its enrollment trend 1-3 years out. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -6.1%/year, projecting from 2024's 425 students:
≈ 114 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $10,469 per student in district revenue, the 114 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $1,193,466/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Academy Kingston Springs |
Private | 2.0 | 22 | — |
| James Lawson High School Nashville |
Public | 6.5 | 1,393 | +12.7% |
| Nashville Christian School Nashville |
Private | 9.1 | 641 | +23.0% |
| The Ensworth School-Hs Campus Nashville |
Private | 9.8 | 437 | — |
| Fairview High School Fairview |
Public | 10.1 | 688 | -0.9% |
| Creek Wood High School Charlotte |
Public | 11.7 | 919 | -1.6% |
| Christ Presbyterian Academy Nashville |
Private | 12.3 | 1,213 | +3.5% |
| Riverside Academy Ashland City |
Public | 12.7 | 13 | — |